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Contact Email: stevenwalker@tanfieldchambers.co.uk
Steven P Walker is an Advocate & Barrister who has been admitted to practise as an Advocate before the Courts of Scotland since 1999. He became an Accredited Mediator in 2003. He called to the Cayman Islands Bar as an Attorney-at-Law in 2007 and to the English Bar as a Barrister in 2008.
Steven is a contentious commercial lawyer who practises Scots, English and International Law. He has a particular interest in Natural Resources, oil/gas/mining as well as energy and construction and engineering related disputes. He is a member of Tanfield Chambers, London.
Steven provides expert legal advice in a wide variety of contentious and non-contentious commercial and corporate matters and specialises in the preparation and presentation of cases before any Court in Scotland, including the Supreme Courts (the High Court of Justiciary, the Court of Criminal Appeal and the Court of Session); the Judicial Committees of the House of Lords and the Privy Council; all other English Courts and the European Court of Human Rights and the Court of Justice of the European Communities; and a wide range of International Arbitral Tribunals, adjudications, inquiries and other such proceedings in United Kingdom and around the world.
Steven is an Honorary Fellow and Principal Lecturer on the International Arbitration LLM at the University of Edinburgh. Steven is a visiting lecturer at the world's leading graduate natural resource school, the Centre for Energy, Petroleum, Mineral Law and Policy, University of Dundee (CEPMLP) and in 2008 he was appointed to the Global Academic Faculty of CEPMLP.
Steven is highly experienced in the preparation and presentation of all aspects of trans-national disputes. Early in his career, he spent a sabbatical year working in the arbitration group of Allen & Overy, London. He was involved in raising the first ICSID arbitration proceedings under the Energy Charter Treaty. He has extensive practice and experience in ICC, LCIA, and ICSID arbitrations as well as numerous other institutional arbitrations and ad hoc arbitrations in the UK and worldwide. He is also highly experienced in the preparation and conduct of adjudications.
Steven was part of the original drafting team who drafted the new Arbitration (Scotland) Bill working alongside the Hon. Lord Dervaird QC. He is a recognised expert in International Arbitration & Dispute Resolution by the United Kingdom's Department for International Development (DFID) and was instructed by them to advise the Government of Tajikistan on their national arbitration law.
He was instructed by the United Kingdom's Department of Trade and Industry to act as Counsel for the United Kingdom in United Nations International Treaty negotiations before the United Nations, Vienna. He was appointed an ad hoc Advocate Depute in 2007 (Crown Counsel) by the Lord Advocate (Head of the Scottish Prosecution Service) and has prosecuted very serious offences for the Crown. Steven holds a public appointment from the Minister for Communities, Scottish Government to sit as a Tribunal Chairman of the Private Rented Housing Tribunal.
